Navigatio Brendani

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...Pious legends, saints’ lives, and stories of such apocryphal adventures as those of the Irish St. Brendan (
c. 486–578) who, as hero of a legend first written down in the 9th-century,
Navigatio Brendani, and later widely translated and adapted, wanders among strange islands on his way to the earthly paradise—these likewise favour the marvellous. The great 12th-century...

Saint Brendan’s legend

...of Iona) and to western Scotland and perhaps to Wales and Brittany. Later, possibly as early as the 8th century, Brendan was immortalized as the hero of a legendary Christian tale of sea adventure,
Navigatio Brendani (“Voyage of Brendan”). This Irish epic, a narrative masterpiece, was translated into Latin prose early in the 10th century. According to the
Navigatio,...